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The 11th millennium and beyond is a period of time that will begin on 1 January 10001 CE. Several predictions have been made concerning this future time period. This article is a compendium of these predictions ranging from factual astronomical knowledge to the predictions of science fiction.

Astronomical events

This section lists several rare astronomical events expected to occur after the year 10000.[1][2][3]

All dates are in a uniform time scale like Terrestrial Time. When converted to our ordinary solar time or Universal Time, which is decidedly non-uniform, via ΔT, the dates would be a few days earlier. Because of this difference, these dates have no anniversary relation to historical dates. Furthermore, they are only astronomical dates, so they are given in the astronomical format of Year Month Day.

Predicted events after year 1,000,000

Please note that there are many different theories and models about our universe and its past, present and future behavior. Because of these factors, the events listed in this section should not be considered definitive, complete or necessarily consistent with one another.

30,000,000,000: Earliest possible date for the universe to collapse in the hypothetical scenario known as the Big Crunch.[15]

100,000,000,000: The Virgo Supercluster merges into one super galaxy, millions of light-years across, filled with red dwarfs and small amounts of white dwarfs. Other superclusters have also merged, yet have been separated from each other by distances of more than a billion light-years due to the acceleration of dark energy.

100,000,000,000,000 to 1,000,000,000,000,000 (one quadrillion): The Big Freeze according to many cosmologists. Intelligent life existing then may flee to other universes, as suggested by the physicist Michio Kaku. Beginning of the Degenerate Era of our universe. End of normal star formation and normal stars in the Milky Way/M31 super-galaxy. New stars formed only via brown dwarf collisions every hundred billion years or so.

10100 (one googol): If the theory of black hole evaporation is correct, it is predicted by many astronomers that all the black holes in our universe will have evaporated by around this year, the beginning of the Dark Era of our universe, unless proton decay does not occur.

40000: Barbarella travels to planet Lythion and defeats Durand Durand and his positronic ray, the Magmous, several twins with killer dolls, and the Black Queen of Sogo with her entourage of Black Guards.

1,001,986 One million years later from 1986, when the events of Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos have taken place and humanity has evolved to seal-like creatures with limited thinking.

ca. 1,000,000: In the Babylon 5 universe, approximately one million years after the founding of the Interstellar Alliance (2262 AD), humans evolve into beings of energy. They leave Earth for the old Vorlon homeworld—and ultimately destroy the solar system to keep any remaining technology out of the hands of younger races.

April 27 of 2,774,020 : Murcheson's Eye explodes into a supernova and becomes a black hole (from The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle).

ca. 3,000,000: In the show Red Dwarf, Red Dwarf is a gigantic spaceship belonging to the Jupiter Mining Corporation. An on-board radiation leak kills everyone except for Dave Lister, who was in suspended animation at the time. Three million years later, Lister emerges from stasis as the last human being alive.

5,000,000: According to the documentary The Future Is Wild, scientists believe that the world will be in an ice age. The Mediterranean Sea will be a vast salt plain and the Amazon rainforest will be no more. Creatures of this land include huge killer birds, thin-legged pigs, sticky-frilled lizards and birds that act like whales. Humans, by this time, have either gone extinct or have left the planet.

ca. 8,000,000: The time of Zothique, last continent of Earth, and home to the dying remnants of the human race. The culture is on a barbaric level, and magic has become dominant over science. – (Clark Ashton Smith, The Zothique Cycle)

30,000,000: The Time Traveller finds himself on a shoreline with a thin atmosphere, a black sky with few stars, the moon gone, and no evidence of intelligent life – except for a single football-sized tentacled creature—H. G. Wells' The Time Machine novel

50,000,000: Following the final end of humanity, a new race of beetle-like insects arises. These are possessed by the Great Race of Yith, leaving their previous home on a planet orbiting a dark star near Taurus. Eventually, even the beetles die out, and the Yithians send their collective minds into a vegetable species living on Mercury. – (H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time)

100,000,000: In the documentary The Future Is Wild, scientists speculate that in 100,000,000 years' time, the world will be very hot due to excess volcanic activity. Antarctica will be a lush rainforest. Creatures of this world include enormous tortoises, amphibious octopuses, four-winged birds and rodent eating spiders. At this time, there is also only one species of mammal left, which is preyed upon by the spiders.

200,000,000: In the documentary The Future Is Wild, scientists speculate that in 200 million years' time the world will contain one global ocean and one continent, like Pangaea. Approximately 100 million years before this time, there was a mass extinction and now most of the world's land is desert, with a couple of rainforests around the edge. Creatures of this world include air-breathing flying fish, giant plankton, various huge worms, highly specialized insects and intelligent, arboreal land-squid. There are no mammals, no birds, no reptiles, no amphibians, only one species of flowering plants and only sharks left to represent aquatic fish. Other creatures have moved in to fill these niches.

100,000,000: Main characters live in this year in the show Time Squad.

500,000,000: The first primitive life develops on Venus. A Venusian is among those that exchanges minds with the Great Race of Yith. – (H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time; Brian Lumley, The Transition of Titus Crow)

635,427,810: Time Traveller Alex Hartdegen escapes from the Morlocks, but emerges stunned to see the rust-colored clouds & sunlight of the far future and a broad moon-like landscape laid waste to the horizon, with Morlock ground entrances – and wonders who the bipeds are, walking in the distance – Simon Wells' production The Time Machine, 2002

ca. 1,000,000,000: The last inhabitants of Earth, a species of arachnids, live within the interior of the dying world. – (H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time)

1,000,000,000: Migration of the Ninth Men to Neptune. – Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men

1,000,000,000: In an episode of "Pinky and The Brain", nuclear fallout has created a species of super-intelligent cockroaches who intend to take over the world with use of a "world domination kit". Brain, obsessed with taking over the world, steals the kit and returns in a time machine to the 20th century.

2,000,000,000: End of Man (the Eighteenth Men). – Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men

ca. 5,000,000,000: The End of the World in Doctor Who. The date is given as 5.5/Apple/26—implying that the explanation of 5 billion was an approximation.

5,000,000,023: In the British science fiction television program Doctor Who, in the episode New Earth, Humans are shown to have moved to a new planet and called it New Earth in the galaxy M87.

7,500,000,000: Middletown propelled into future – from City at World's End by Edmond Hamilton.

100,000,000,000,000: In the British science fiction television program Doctor Who, in the episode Utopia, Humans are shown to have moved to a new planet as refugees and are waiting to fly to Utopia to escape what is implied to be The Big Crunch or heat death, also known as the End of the Universe. As indicated in dialogue in the episode, after having evolved into different forms over the millennia, humans by this time have re-evolved back into the same humanoid form known today.

500,000,000,000,000,000,000 (500 quintillion): In Stephen Baxter's Manifold: Time novel, the last descendants of humanity, close to the Big Freeze, make some changes to our near present in order to release the universe's vacuum energy, spawn new universes, and avoid letting the Big Freeze from happening at this time.

^ The disparity in the Xenogears years is due to the vagueness of the calendar conversions used in the game. The accompanying literature, Xenogears Perfect Works (PW), states that in AD 2510 the calendar system restarted and was labeled TC, for Transcend Christ. Again in year 4767 TC, the calendar system restarts and is called the New Era. PW continues on, stating the events of Xenogears begin in the year 9999 of the New Era. Whether year 0 is counted in any of the calendar systems is up for debate therefore leading to the disparity in the beginning of the events of the game.